Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 261
Peter, feeling her slip from him, woke with a start, and was just in time to draw her back.
Who acts: Peter, Wendy · What happens: feel, wake, be, draw, slip · To what, where: slip, back
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, Wendy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 woke | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Peter | punct |
| 3 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Peter | acl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 slip | nmod:poss |
| 5 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feeling | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 feeling | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Peter | punct |
| 9 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 start | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 start | det |
| 12 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 woke | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 time | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 time | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 time | cop |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 time | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 woke | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 draw | mark |
| 20 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 time | acl |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 back | nmod:poss |
| 22 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 draw | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | Peter not said here | Wendy's slip | from Peter | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slip=Theme | |||
| 2 | wake | past | Peter | with a start | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with start=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | is | past | in time | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | draw | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | Wendy's back | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Theme | ||||
| 5 | slip | Wendy | nom slip «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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